Cloud security provider
Armor5 today announced that it has extended its Zero Touch Cloud Security service to Google Apps for Business™, including Google Gmail™, Google Docs™, Google Drive™ and Google Sheets™. The Armor5 service gives enterprises protection against data leakage, compliance exposures and privacy breaches at the last mile between the cloud and the device – when employees and contractors bypass perimeter security controls and access cloud-based Google Apps for Business from their devices.
“By 2018, 25% of corporate data traffic will bypass traditional perimeter security defenses (up from 4% today) by flowing directly from mobile devices to the cloud,” according to Gartner. The recent Gartner report advises, “As the adoption of cloud computing and mobility accelerates, new revenue opportunities will emerge, together with the need for better service reliability and security. CSP strategists should move quickly on the opportunities and address associated challenges.”
“The number of companies using Gmail and Google’s cloud-based productivity suite for business is increasing at a rapid pace,” said Suresh Balasubramanian, CEO of Armor5. “But when mobile users access or download corporate data from these cloud services, companies open themselves up to a new set of security, compliance and privacy risks. The current security approach is like putting a padlock on the front door, but leaving a side window wide open! Armor5 secures the ‘last mile’ – the time when users access and/or edit data within third-party cloud services, while using their devices.”
With Armor5, employees can instantly open up a secure session on any device or network to access/edit content stored within Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive, and Google Sheets, without requiring additional device control software or network configuration changes. Armor5 virtualizes the user’s experience and places the security function in the cloud, where it is isolated from the device and the network.
With Armor5, data and content never reside on the device – protecting companies against potential data leakage whenever a device is lost, stolen, compromised or when a worker leaves the organization. Employees and contract workers with access to company, employee or customer data in key functions such as accounting, finance, legal and customer management, as well as those that integrate Google Productivity tools with data from applications secured in the Google Apps Marketplace™ also gain “” and seamless enterprise policy controls from any device.
